NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 10-2018

ANTI-ISLAM campaigner Tommy Robinson has announced he will join Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes on his Australian tour in December, in a move likely to increase pressure on the government to ban the right-wing activists from entering the country.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has attacked hardliners and appealed for calm after the acquittal of a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy.

Tala Farea, 16, and Rotana Farea, 22, were living in Virginia before their mysterious deaths but had not seen their family for two weeks and had been ordered back to Saudi Arabia.

The Lone Star Task Force is looking for Aria Young (left), a 31-year-old transgender woman born Jacob O'Donnell (right). She is facing charges of injury to a child involving her daughters.

Logan Kyle, 22, is believed to have strangled his wife Shelena at their home in Fort Polk, Louisiana after she threatened to expose his cross-dressing secret. Sources say Kyle loved to wear wigs and makeup.

So far this year 72 patients have been recorded by Los Angeles County Department of Public Health with a further 15 in Long Beach and 20 in Pasadena.

The last Greyhound bus pulls into a station in Western Canada at midnight Wednesday, the victim of high costs and declining ridership, according to U.S. parent company Greyhound.

Climate scientists have not been properly accounting for what plants do at night, and that, it turns out, is a mistake. A new study from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that plant nutrient uptake i

Raids in India, in co-operation with RCMP, follow CBC Marketplace story on Indian call-centres contacting Canadians, claiming to be from CRA and demanding tax payments.

James 'Whitey' Bulger, the Boston gangster whose life inspired films, was reportedly killed in jail.

New research is digging in to why fracking causes earthquakes in some areas but not in others.

Canadians' attitudes about meat consumption are changing, according to a new study from Dalhousie University.

That's up more than 11 per cent from 206,624 bpd in July and 91 per cent from just 120,000 bpd in August 2017.

A Lion Air plane with 189 people aboard crashes into the sea just minutes after taking off from Indonesia's capital, and an official from the agency responsible for search and rescue says it's unlikely anyone survived the crash.

A significant number of the bars were forced to make emergency beer runs after the U.S. soldiers left their mark on the capital after the largest NATO military exercise since the Cold War.

Defense Secretary James Mattis said on Sunday military has already begun delivering jersey barriers to the southern border in conjunction with plans to deploy active duty troops.

Shocking video shows a student identified by police as Travez Perry violently punching, kicking and stomping on a girl in the hallway of Tomball High School near Houston, Texas.

'I believe it is (his) strategy to not have this pipeline even started to be built by the next election. He just can't admit that it will be dead by the next election'

Jack 'Jihadi Jack' Letts, 22, has dual British-Canadian citizenship and is locked up in a Kurdish jail after he allegedly joined ISIS. The Canadian government have said they can't help him.

Police from across the city of Pittsburgh are responding to an active shooting situation at the The Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill.

The strongest storm to hit any part of the United States this year crumbled concrete houses, smashed cars and killed at least one person in the Northern Mariana Islands, shocking residents and officials used to riding out monster storms in the U.S. territ

Canada has cleared the last legislative hurdle involved in implementing the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade deal, paving the way for Canada to be among the first six countries to ratify the pact that wil

The Librarian of Congress and US Copyright Office just proposed new rules that will give consumers and independent repair experts wide latitude to legally hack embedded software on their devices in order to repair or maintain them. This exemption to copyr

Researchers have mapped out a series of internet traffic hijacks and redirections that they say are part of large espionage and intellectual property theft effort by China. The researchers, Chris Demchak of the United States Naval War College and Yuval

A 45-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of trying to steal a Magna Carta from Salisbury Cathedral after an alarm sounded when the glass case protecting it was smashed.

Three men are held as the rape and killing of a 16-year-old is seized upon by the populist right.

Kelly tried to deal with the scandal by delivering a tearful apology on-air and welcoming two black panelists to discuss the fraught and horrifying history of the practice, but it did no good.

The two girls, ages 11 and 12, were armed with knives Tuesday at Bartow Middle School in central Florida before they were caught, according to arrest affidavits released by the Bartow Police Department.

For the first time in 48 years, Canadian fisheries scientists failed to complete an annual summer survey off Nova Scotia because of a mechanical breakdown on their coast guard research ship.

The New Caledonian birds have surprised scientists once again with remarkable problem-solving skills.

Residents of the Northern Mariana Islands were bracing for months without electricity or running water in the aftermath of the strongest storm to hit any part of the U.S. this year.

Military forces from 31 countries began NATO's largest exercise in decades, stretching from the Baltic Sea to Iceland, on Thursday, practising military manoeuvres close to Russia, which itself held a huge military drill last month.

After decades of failed negotiations, broken promises, standoffs, arrests and global condemnation, Alberta, Canada, and the Lubicon Lake Band have announced a landmark land settlement and compensation deal.

Quebec's new government wants to block Muslim women who work in the civil service from wearing the chador, a shawl-like piece of clothing that covers the head and body, and the niqab, which also covers the face.

Ontario Labour Minister Laurie Scott says her constituency office was broken into and vandalized overnight after the Progressive Conservative government introduced workplace reforms, including a minimum-wage freeze.

What's happened to the vanished Uighurs of Xinjiang?

Cook: Tech companies should de-identify customer data or not collect it at all.

Authorities have intercepted suspicious devices intended for former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and the Florida office of Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was evacuated Wednesday after a suspicious package was mailed there.

A team in Whitehorse is looking to clean up a mess that dates back to the 1940s.

East Island has vanished after coming into contact with Hurricane Walaka, an intense storm that hit Hawaii earlier this month

The 75ft shipwreck, found 1.3 miles under the surface of the Black Sea, could shed new light on the ancient Greek tale of Odysseus tying himself to a mast to avoid being tempted by sirens.

Thousands of Swedes have been implanted with a microchip that allows them to replace cash, tickets and access card with a chip the size of a grain of rice.

Chipman Mayor Carson Atkinson says the flag met the village council's criteria because it "recognizes, accepts and respects the rights of individuals under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms."

Sgt. Ann Marie Guerra, the second-in-command at the 72nd Precinct Detectives Squad, flipped out on Detective Victor Falcon when he complained about her leaving her underwear all over the unisex locker room, sources said.

Authorities say two arriving airplanes, including an Air Canada flight, touched wingtips while taxiing at New York's LaGuardia airport, but the planes were able to continue to their gates.

A Greek anarchist group has claimed responsibility for an attack on the Canadian embassy in the country early Sunday morning.

Police say she told highly vulnerable customers she needed to 'cleanse' their cash and jewellery of 'evil spirits' in order to cure their ailments

Offshore Nova Scotia surface ocean temperatures were so warm earlier this month they forced a Canadian research ship that uses seawater to cool its engines to slow down.

A series of three large earthquakes struck off the coast of British Columbia late Sunday, followed by aftershocks early Monday morning. British Columbia is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, an active seismic zone where thousands of mostly small earthqu

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul pushed back on the Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir Monday who criticized him for suggesting Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was responsible for Jamal Khashoggi's death.

Canada's embrace of American-style protectionist measures to prop up domestic steelmakers is set to increase costs for consumers and secondary manufacturers - assuming they can even find steel to purchase amid current shortages. It's also offending key tr

Forecasters say Hurricane Willa has grown rapidly into an "extremely dangerous" near-Category 5 storm in the eastern Pacific, on a path that could smash into Mexico's western coast between Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta in the coming days.

Alberta Party Leader Stephen Mandel says he doesn't understand why the United Conservative Party has turned the carbon tax into such a huge issue when debt will hurt the province more.

An Alberta farmer has donated 10,000 kilograms to the Edmonton and Calgary food banks and plans to donate more this week.

President Donald Trump's trade policy is getting in the way of his desire to hold a ceremony to claim a major trade victory.

CBC News has learned that the Liberal government has written off a loan made to Chrysler in 2009 to bail out the auto sector. The taxpayer-funded loan has been accruing interest for nine years without payments, and the write-off represents a loss of publi

Canadian immigration officials have determined that the United States remains a safe country for asylum seekers, despite the Trump administration's crackdown on what it terms illegal aliens.

Last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported a small surge in cases of a mysterious disease in children. More than 60 cases of the polio-like illness have been confirmed in 22 U.S. states in recent weeks. Now, doctors at the Hospital for Sick

Air pollution in the US has decreased since about 1990, and a new study conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill now shows that this air quality improvement has brought substantial public health benefits. The study, published in the jo

The colon's owners - who were using it to spread awareness of cancer - are asking whoever stole it to dump it so they can continue their work.

Trans women Rachel McKinnon has taken to Twitter to defend the validity of her cycling championship win while competing against cisgendered female cyclists.

VICTORIA, BC: Mayor Lisa Helps and the City of Victoria were issued defamation notices earlier today by local taxpayer advocate and Victoria resident Aaron Gunn for false and defamatory statements made by the Mayor on October 16th, 2018 on CFAX radio.

President Donald Trump has announced he will pull the United States out of a Cold War-era nuclear weapons deal with Russia. The president has accused Russia of violating the 1987 pact, but provided no further details.

Yasiel Puig broke open a tight game with a three-run homer in the sixth inning, Chris Taylor robbed Christian Yelich with a super catch as the Los Angeles Dodgers took Game 7 of the NL Championship Series with a 5-1 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Satur

Sutter opened the scoring less than four minutes into the game following a scramble in front of Boston's net. The centreman grabbed the puck from the fracas and slipped it in under Halak's leg for his third of the season. Bo Horvat scored at 3:12 of overt

One of two tourists charged with vandalism for spray painting graffiti on an ancient red-brick wall in northern Thailand is from Grande Prairie, Alta.

An angry diner confronted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at a restaurant Friday night, but was met with calls from other customers to leave the Kentucky Republican alone.

A majority of Torontonians support the Doug Ford government's reduction of city council believing fewer councillors will help save money and get things done, a new DART Insight poll shows.

A Canadian source close to the ongoing talks to resolve U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum is insisting Canada is not about to agree to quotas or other limits on its exports in order to get the levies lifted.

A group of companies led by multinational defence giant Lockheed Martin has been selected as the preferred designer for Canada's next generation of warships, the Liberal government said Friday.

More business owners, customers and human rights advocates are rallying behind the owner of a McCauley bar who has been complaining for months about what he says is unfair and unjustified police presence in his establishment.

Plans for public art at the Bowfort interchange were paid for, but more than a year after the piece was partially unveiled, CBC Calgary has learned it will never be completed.

In the first issue of our new environmental newsletter, What on Earth?, we talk to climate scientist Michael Mann, explore the world of waste-free takeout and examine plant-based Lego blocks.

The tariff on cans hit a product already in short supply after the closure of a plant in Massachusetts in January

If you're travelling by plane in the United States any time soon, you may come across facial recognition technology to check in, drop off a bag, go through security and board your flight.

A Briton and Canadian face up to 10 years in prison on charges of spraying paint on an ancient wall in northern Thailand, police said Friday.

In less than ten years, plastic pollution around St. Helena, East Falkland and Ascension Islands has increased tenfold, and 100 times in the last 30 years

Microplastics were found in sea salt several years ago. But how extensively plastic bits are spread throughout the most commonly used seasoning remained unclear. Now, new research shows microplastics in 90 percent of the table salt brands sampled worldwid

A cabal of "Mean Girls" terrorized a teenage boy with bogus sex assault allegations turning the former star baseball player into a nervous wreck.

Lawyers for Norman, who was charged with breach of trust for allegedly leaking government secrets, said in a court filing that the government had "cherry-picked" what information to disclose.

The flowers famous for blooming briefly every spring make a surprise appearance.

A call from a Canadian Senate committee to follow the U.S. lead in cutting corporate taxes comes just as the hazards of that policy loom larger south of the border.

A city police officer who fatally shot a man after he came at him with a hunting knife during a traffic stop has been cleared of any wrongdoing.

After receiving a threatening, racist letter from neighbours earlier this week, a St. Albert mother says she fears for her children's safety and will move out of her rented condo.

Provincial government takes aim at farmers' concerns they could get stuck with cleanup bill for renewable energy projects.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers says it has given strike notice to Canada Post that workers could walk off the job as early as next week.

Nearly 25 years after Paul Bernardo was convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of Ontario teens Kristen French and Leslie Mahaffy, their mothers will address the parole board members who will decide whether to grant the notorious killer some freed

Licia Corbella: For the first time, the former freelance journalist and hostage shared who paid the bulk of the $1-million ransom nine years ago

Russian fighter jets and ships are trying to provoke British and Dutch marines on exercise in the Arctic Circle, one of the Netherlands' most senior military officials has revealed.

The report was a rare move by the ruling Communist Party to publicly outline what it is trying to achieve with what former detainees have characterized as political indoctrination camps where they are forced to denounce Islam and profess loyalty to the pa

Details are scarce, but reports indicate multiple F-22s, which cost some $150 million each, may have been wrecked at Florida's Tyndall Air Base

People my age grew up believing the world, led by the West, was becoming ever more progressive. It wasn't, and it isn't. All it took was one ambitious real estate huckster to dispel the illusion.

The mask has finally dropped on what Jason Kenney will do if he becomes premier next year, leaving Albertans with a "stark choice" in next year's election, Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips says.

Details are scarce, but reports indicate multiple F-22s, which cost some $150 million each, may have been wrecked at Florida's Tyndall Air Base

Insects around the world are in a crisis, according to a small but growing number of long-term studies showing dramatic declines in invertebrate populations. A new report suggests that the problem is more widespread than scientists realized. Huge numbers

Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth says only one store is approved to open on Wednesday.

Goldie would chew and eat anything she could reach. As a result, her teeth were worn down to the root.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is opening a new front in his party's fight against the revamped NAFTA deal, saying he would have done better than Justin Trudeau.

Canadian consular officials have been trying to find out where the Canadians are being detained in order to give them consular assistance.